As a complement to the great success achieved by the guidance program, within the first specialized programs offered by the Institute of Public Administration (BIPA) for the public sector employees, the proceedings of the second session of the program started targeting to develop guidance capacities and skills of 11 directors from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. The program is aimed at the preparation of directors to learn about Guidance general concepts, understanding of Guidance process and factors affecting its success, identifying the basic skills necessary for the success of Guidance, learning how to use Guidance for improving performance, knowing the possible challenges to personal Guidance sessions, and improving the capacity for carrying out an integrated personal Guidance session, thereby contributing to improving and developing government performance based on the effective application of Guidance sessions. BIPA’s Senior Director of Professional Development Mrs. Ghada Shna’a stated that the program, in its general framework, is centered on three main processes – to develop and strengthen directors’ leadership capacities, as well as the capacities of the staff, improve their performance, increase their personal awareness and motivating them, and enhance communication between the staff member and his organization, and between the staff themselves, for contributing significantly to reinforcing the modern administrative concepts and changing institutional culture for the best.
Mrs. Shna’a added that the main processes for the Guidance program are consisting of the process of participation and awareness which is promoting basic concepts for Guidance, interactive participation and refining the importance of awareness and presenting Guidance models with practical applications. The program’s second process is represented in widening the prospects through enhancing guider’s basic capacities and sharpening up the arts of listening, interaction and questioning skills, and confronting expected challenges during Guidance with practical applications. The third process of the program is to move towards the goal, as it seeks to promote advanced concepts in Guidance in action, and identifying the role of the institution in Guidance and refine the skill of plan development to reach the goal with the presentation of practical applications.
Mrs. Shna’a explained that the Guidance Program is to promote participation process between two people, the guider (coach), and the trainee (coachee), and it is carried out through multiple sessions between them, this process is designed to assist the trainee to reach specific targets that were agreed upon between the parties during the Guidance sessions, thus these sessions lead to accessing a state of clarity and ability to a practical move towards the achievement of the set goals, through a participatory and innovative thinking process to widen trainee’s prospects and motivate him to reach higher professional and personal abilities.
It is worth to mention that BIPA designed the Guidance Program especially to rehabilitate the category of directors in the public sector in order to be able to undertake the process of Guidance to their employees, to help them developing their functional performance in different institutions. The Guidance Program comes within the Institute's strategy to design and present short contractual courses and programs offered to government ministries and institutions, in accordance with their training needs, in view of the importance of such programs to raise the functional performance of staff in the public sector and improve Government’s human resources.